Liu Chun Fai
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| Traditional Chinese | 廖俊輝 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 廖俊辉 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Liu Chun Fai (Chinese: 廖俊輝; born 1956) is a former Hong Kong professional footballer. He is regarded as one of the best Hong Kong goalkeepers in the 1980s. He holds an AFC A license and the goalkeeper coach qualification.
Club career
In his player career, he played for Happy Valley, Caroline Hill, Sea Bee, Eastern, Harps, Seiko,[1] May Ching, Lai Sun and Sing Tao.
Managerial career
He retired in the early 1990s and became a coach. He was the coach of Hong Kong 09, Yau Tsim Mong and Citizen. He started at Citizen as a goalkeeper coach, and in 2006 he became the head coach of the team.[2] In 2007-08 season, he led the team to finish second in Hong Kong First Division and captured the champion of Hong Kong FA Cup, the first major trophy won by the team ever.[3] With this outstanding result, he was awarded the Best Coach Award of the season.[4]
On 5 February 2018, Liu was named as interim coach of the Hong Kong national football team following the resignation of Kim Pan-gon in December 2017.[5]
Honours
Manager
- Citizen
- South China
Assistant manager
- South China
References
- ^ 精工球員名單 Archived 2008-05-26 at the Wayback Machine (in Chinese)
- ^ 公民官網：職員資料 (in Chinese)
- ^ 公民創會首冠賀銀禧 (in Chinese)
- ^ 2007/08 HKFA HK Top Footballer Awards - Result
- ^ "廖俊輝確認為臨時主帥 將領港足生死戰硬撼北韓". Apple Daily. Retrieved 5 February 2018. (in Chinese)